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...John Lewis unexpectedly gave in, agreed to submit the dispute to arbitration, observers wondered why this roaring lion had suddenly begun to coo like a sucking dove. Some suggested a possible reason: Mr. Lewis had good reason to suppose that the arbitration board-U.S. Steel Corp. President Benjamin Fairless, Dr. John R. Steelman, head of the U.S. Conciliation Service, and John L. Lewis himself-would decide in Mr. Lewis' favor...
Franklin Roosevelt, the Great White Father of Labor, is also President of the U.S. He summoned the disputants to the White House, told them off in language that had the forceful clarity of a long-suffering man boundlessly irked. To Steelmen Purnell, Fairless and Grace and the three chiefs of C.I.O., the President read the riot act in primer words: ". . . In the first place, we all know that the United States is in a state of national emergency. ... It is essential to national safety that we continue the defense production program without delay. . . . Coal for steel plants is a necessity...
...Wardman Park Hotel. Next day Lewis walked through a side door of the Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, strode up one flight to 200-B, the suite where Messrs. Fairless, Purnell and Grace awaited him and his aides...
...struggle was between Grace and Lewis. Reporters outside knew well that Purnell and Fairless were inclined to sign with Lewis. But Lewis is Grace's devil, and vice versa. They have a long record of hatred, these two-the smooth, hard-boiled man whose income has averaged about $600,000 a year for 23 years, who was condemned blisteringly by William Howard Taft, a World War 1 chief of the War Labor Board, for wrecking a hard-won labor agreement; and the huge, hard-boiled man who has seldom been down a mine in the last 20 years...
...more desire to cooperate with his rivals on price matters than had the young Henry Ford (who has not joined the Automobile Manufacturers Association to this day). For lone Weirwolves, the high-cost atmosphere of the A.I.S.I. is oppressive. But Mr. Weir will continue to confront Messrs. Fairless, Grace, Girdler, et al. at the councils of Steel's Defense Committee, the body which really represents steel in its dealings with Washington...